The Complete Guide to iOS 5’s New and “Hidden” Settings | Ted Landau's User Friendly View. Much of what is new and different in iOS 5 is easily apparent — especially with a little guidance from Apple’s website. You can access the camera from the Lock Screen. A swipe of your finger brings down (up?) Notifications Center. At least some of your newspaper apps got shunted to Newsstand.
And so it goes. iOS 5 is a huge update with a boatload of big new features. But it’s also stocked with a bunch of smaller less obvious new features, some of which you might not know even exist unless you did some digging. What follows are brief descriptions of every (almost every?) Notifications Notifications adds support for the new Notification Center feature.
From Notifications Settings, you can select for Center listings to be sorted By Time (most recent ones on top) or Manually (your determine your own sort order). Location Services This is where you modify whether or not a particular app is able to use your location data for determining where you are at any given moment. Sounds iCloud Twitter Safari. Okay, Now I Get It: Here's Why Apple Launched The iPhone 4S Instead Of The iPhone 5. Oh, ye of little faith. When Apple launched the iPhone 4S instead of the iPhone 5 last week, I initially thought it was a disappointment and a mistake. If Apple had launched the actual iPhone 5, I thought, they'd have sold more of them. And that's probably right. If Apple had launched a radically new iPhone 5, more of the folks who currently own iPhone 4s would have upgraded, so Apple would have sold some more 4S units.
As it is, the iPhone 4S is likely to appeal primarily to iPhone 3G and 3GS owners, non-smartphone owners, and non-iPhone owners, most of whom (like me) are presumably stoked to buy the iPhone 4S. But viewing the 4S as disappointing ignores Apple's likely thinking behind it, which Asymco analyst Horace Dediu explains very clearly here. So the 4S isn't aimed at these folks. Pre-iPhone 4 iPhone users (~70 million of them)Non-smartphone users (1+ billion, who can now get a 3GS for free, if price is an issue)Non-iPhone smartphone users (Blackberry, Android, Nokia) #COEHITR Eliot Siegel talking IBM's Watson in Health Care - Also refers to potential of SIRI in #iphone 4S. renewed public interest in AI.
Why Siri just might work | This is my next... When I wrote my post on natural user interface a couple months back (described by some as a "real barnstormer"), I glossed over most current forms of voice recognition. The problem as I saw it, and still see it, is that recognizing voice has to be bulletproof for it to be truly useful. Where computers fail at listening is that they can't fill in the blanks. Even if I don't catch every syllable (and I don't, I'm a pretty bad listener), I usually know what someone's saying -- sometimes halfway through the sentence -- based on context and logic. The other place where I win is that if I don't understand someone, I can usually ask them to clarify. Context Siri has access to your current location, your to-do list, and your calendar. More importantly, Siri has conversational context. Logic Recognizing context is a simple kind of logic, and very important for listening.
Clarification Background Ultimately, there's nothing new to these concepts. Only two problems… We made it, guys! Apple now selling unlocked GSM iPhone 4 in US, starting at $649. Breaking By Josh Ong Apple updated its online store on Tuesday to begin offering unlocked models of the iPhone 4, starting at $649. Both the white and black versions of Apple's bestselling smartphone are available, with the 16GB and 32GB versions selling for $649 and $749, respectively, in the U.S. Apple online store. The device is not eligible for international shipping. Currently, the black versions of the unlocked iPhone 4 are estimated to ship within 1-3 business days, while white versions are listed as shipping within 3-5 days.
"The unlocked iPhone 4 requires an active micro-SIM card that you obtain from a supported GSM wireless carrier," Apple notes on the product description page. As with unlocked iPhones sold internationally, the device will work on all Apple-supported GSM networks around the world. Over the weekend, reports emerged that Apple would begin sales of the unlocked iPhone 4 in the U.S., though the device went on sale a day earlier than sources had suggested.
I Quit The iPhone. I have loved the iPhone, but now I am quitting the iPhone. This is not an easy decision. I was there in January 2007 when it was announced and I bought the first iPhone as soon as it was available. I happily bought the iPhone 3G a year later. I’ve proudly yelled “I Am A Member Of The Cult Of iPhone.” I’ve been an unabashed cheerleader for the device to all who’ll listen. And I’ve scoffed at developers who said they’d abandon the platform. But I’m not going to upgrade to the iPhone 3GS. What finally put me over the edge? Most of you won’t know what I’m talking about, so I’ll explain. Google Voice is a call management service that lets you determine what calls get through to you based on who’s calling and what time of day it is, among other factors. I’ve always wanted to use Google Voice but there’s a big switching cost – changing your phone number.
But now Google is planning on rolling out number portability, so I can move my mobile phone number to Google. Or so I thought. BIG Images News. Is the iPhone causing Apple to lose the plot? Is Apple losing the plot? I ask this because, having just read this bollocks (Apple wants to make jailbreaking illegal because it supposedly threatens our nation’s cellphone tower infrastructure, and thereby threatens our national security), I’ve read nothing but well-reasoned, anti-Apple invective. Come, let’s explore the phenomenon. But first: what’s going on? The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to make iPhone jailbreaking 100 percent legal. Anyhow, Apple wrote to the Copyright Office, and offered this explanation as to why jailbreaking should never be legalized: …local or international hacker[s] could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data.
To quote MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, ha! If the sheer ludicrousness of that statement isn’t apparent right now, then hopefully the following comments I’ve isolated will make things clear. Then they’re broken. Home. Apple launches iPhone Developer University Program. By Slash Lane Apple has recently released details of a new program designed for higher education institutions looking to introduce curriculum for developing iPhone or iPod touch applications. Dubbed iPhone Developer University, the new program allows instructors and professors to create a development team with up to 200 students free of charge. It offers all of the same tools granted to paid iPhone developers, including the iPhone SDK, but also provides iPhones and iPod touches for evaluation purposes.
"With the suite of sophisticated and elegant tools included in the iPhone SDK, and a wide-range of resources in the iPhone Dev Center, students participating in the class will have everything they need to create innovative applications for iPhone and iPod touch," Apple says. It appears the company will treat university development teams like small companies, allowing members to discuss the iPhone SDK and inner workings of iPhone development with one another. iPhone dial via Grand Central.